Centeno Family History
- Centeno Name Meaning
- Spanish: from centeno ‘rye’ (Late Latin centenum, a derivative of centum ‘hundred’, so called as the plant was supposed to be capable of producing a hundred grains on each stalk). The a surname may have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold rye, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a field given over to the cultivation of this crop.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 163,011 Historical Documents with Centeno on Ancestry
- 134,432 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 14,999 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,320 Military Records
- 4,299 Immigration Records
- 7,961 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Centeno census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Centeno census records
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